Travel Blogs from Dominical, Costa Rica

... ). We leave at 7:30am and won't arrive at our hostal until 5:30pm! That is the one thing they need to fix here in CostaRica. A lot of the roads are terrible and the bus schedules are worse. There are two buses that leave Puntaranus for Monteverde one is ...

... and took the boat back to the mainland. At Puntarenas, we transferred to a packed bus headed toward the south pacific coast of CostaRica. It was a long ride for an understatement. The bus was crowded to the max, similar to any Beijing city buses at rush ...

Domincal (permanent population 300) is a small, still somewhat undeveloped town on the southern pacific coast. The road to get here was comically rough, muddy, bumpy and involved driving across a small river (without a bridge). In Quepos, Domincal was ...

... . The beaches in town are a little rough for swimming, a little south is better swimming beaches. And also the beaches south of Playa Dominical, you can find deserted beaches, and almost be the only one on the beach. Really nice place to ...

... with a great balcony and has a very laid back youthful atmosphere. The owners are four young Americans, probably about our age who call CostaRica home for the summer.
Today was by far the best day of all. We got up early and walked down to the beach ...

... leave pass when the other Hughes arrives lol).
Dominical was definitely a lovely way to spend the last week of our time in CostaRica, nice small town with not too many people lurking around. We were also able to finally find some really decent fruit ...

... jumped on a bus, which took forever to arrive, ps....and finally were on the road. we had to drive all the way back to dominical, and quepos, and then on the way to san jose, the bus broke down and we ended up trying to hitch hike but no one would ...

... San Isidro is located at latitude 9.36036547528434 Longitude-83.6663818359375 and San Jose is at latitude 9.936928733095229 longitude -84.07690431922674. CostaRica, as I think every one knows, is much closer to the equator. In San Isidro a very nice ...

... in CostaRica, I've changed Ciao to Hola for 4 months. My travel adventure has taken me to the beautiful Central American country of CostaRica. I flew from Florence, Italy to San Jose, CR a week ago today, with a brief stop over in Newark, NJ. long ...

... rolling hills. It is absolutely beautiful.
A little about Baru. It is located on the Pacific Coast of CostaRica, just north of the surfer town Dominical. Back in the early 1970s it was a working cattle and rice farm, having been previously cleard ...

Pleasant little surf town, fairly unspoilt with huge sandy beach crossed by many rivers, the main one creating a lagoon & pebbly driftwood covered spit and resulting in lots of birdlife. Many waders plus tropical birds including toucans - one shat on ...

Well, here I am at the beach. I am at Manuel Antonio, a national preserve. It is on the central Pacific coast and is beautiful, although a bit touristy and expensive. The guidebooks gaurantee a monkey sighting, and sure enough on our way back from ...

... WE DID. It was my horse and me with my long locks flowing (just kidding) galloping through the jungle in COSTARICA. I was overcome with appreciation for MY LIVING LARGE LIFE. We all got back together at the hacienda. Enjoyed a ...

... it was time to leave seeing how now we had seen the park, so we made our way back to Quepos to catch a bus to Playa Dominical. it was a 4 hour bus right and it was hot and sweaty and basically i hate the bus!! but eventually we did make it ...

Hola from beautiful Plantillo, CostaRica I am on top of the mountain, looking down at the valley and out to the Pacific Ocean. It is an incredible country. To be in the lush vegetation of the jungle, on top of a mountain and 7 miles away from the ...

We're still having a blast here ... as we said, staying in between Dominical and Uvita on the Pacific Coast. Almost every day we stop in, even for a few minutes, at one of the dozens of beautiful beaches along this coast. The sand isn't white like Playa ...

... them right now!! Whoopee!
Dad and I took the bus to Manuel Antonio yesterday after classes and arrived around 8. We found a room at Costa Verde, where Ben and I stayed when we were here. It's so beautiful here, and we got to hike in the national park. ...

... stand as offices or workers accommodation in the palm oil plantations. Like SE Asia, these are African Oil Palms and given CostaRica’s efforts in local, organic produce, eco-tourism and sustainability it seems very odd to see it. OK ...

Hola Everyone, It's been awhile since I have written because I have been really busy "being and living in CostaRica.!!! Only one more week of house sitting and then I will "set sail" to travel around CR: going to Arenal Volcano and Monte Verde in the ...

Life in Barú gets easier and more enjoyable every day. I´ve discovered that new and bizarre bugs and creatures now interest me rather than scare me. And thankfully, the bugs have finished discovering me and Im no longer tasty to bite! Im finally ...

... after we cross it we go to David then we turn and go up to Boquete. My grandma just left after a 1 month visit from December 1st to January 5th. she took a small plane to San Jose Costarica from Quepos Thats it for now expect a new blog ...

dominical, probably the coolest beach town ive been to. the beachbreak here claims a lot of boards, in fact most of the bars in town are literally littered with snapped boards on the walls and ceilings. amazing sunsets ...

... hit the road heading south. And of course it freaking rained. But in the afternoon we made it to a little Costa Rican beach town called Dominical. It was low season here as well (of course), but we found a cheap hotel, Tortilla Flats, on ...

... squirel monkeys for the first time. There are in fact only 1500 of these monkeys left and they only live in the southwest of CostaRica. You can also see many three-toed sloths and coatis around. Overall, it was very relaxing spending a couple of days in ...

... Tahoe while in Manual Antontio, decided to head off and take it on. This hike will be to the summit of the tallest peak in CostaRica and the second highest in Central America. Mt. Chirripo sits has a summit of 3,819 meters, which at first didn't sound ...